DOD 2024

Disasters occur when hazards – both natural as well as man-made – and their corresponding risks can no longer be properly contained, leading to serious detrimental consequences in terms of loss of life, financial repercussions or devastation to infrastructure and the environment. In recent years, the rising number of disasters occurring all over the world, even affecting or threatening regions where in the past certain hazards were not so prominent, have painfully revealed that disaster preparedness as well as disaster management are not always up to par to the challenges posed by various kinds of disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an especially hard test by reality for many aspects of disaster preparedness as well as operational disaster management policies, and it still impacts our lives today and will continue to do so for some time in the future. From the perspective of today, the world-wide spread and the multitude of resulting different (local and global) implications during the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the importance to consider the dynamic evolvement of a disaster, which is exactly what the DOD-series has been focused on in the past and will also be focused on in its edition in 2024.

Moreover, DOD 2024 will broaden its scope and put forward the specialized theme of hybrid threats, thereby paying particular attention to new and emerging threats due to the ever growing integration as well as increasing coupling between the cyber- and physical domain. Such new and emerging threats reach farther than cyber-physical systems, which – so far – have been the prime examples for targets of novel attacks and their consequences, which can arise from both the cyber- as well as the physical domain. The impact of hybrid threats on our modern societies is profound and only increases the challenges pertaining to disaster risk, disaster management organizations and first responders.

We call for (extended) abstracts and/or papers dealing with all aspects related to the dynamics of disasters, and – in particular – encourage submissions dealing with hybrid threats to be presented at DOD 2024. We would also like to highlight that we encourage submissions addressing challenges relating to the interdisciplinary character of disaster response and disaster management.

We will organize a call for extended versions of papers presented at DOD2024 to be included in dedicated post-proceedings of DOD 2024 published by Springer, similar to previous editions of the DOD-series:

• for DOD 2015 (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319437071)
• for DOD 2017 (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319974415)
• for DOD 2019 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649722)
• for DOD 2021: Operations Research Forum virtual issue

We are very much looking forward to hosting DOD 2024, which will be co-located with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and welcoming you to Vienna!

Plenary Talk: Dynamics of Disasters

Extreme global disasters are a subject of scientific intrigue, and a huge amount of research has been devoted to them. Much work is devoted to studying them across the fields of science, ethics, and policy issues of catastrophic risk.

Humans experience a wide array of disasters that generally fall into two categories: natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, pandemics, etc.; and unnatural, or man-made, disasters such as wars, explosions, wildfires, chemical spills, etc.

Such disasters wreak havoc and provoke extensive and large-scale devastation, and carry extremely serious financial repercussions for nations, organizations, and individuals. In this lecture, we are going to address some of the issues regarding the dynamics of disasters and address some of the latest developments. We hope to stimulate and promote awareness and discussions.

Short Bio

Panos Pardalos was born in Drosato (Mezilo) Argitheas GR in 1954 and graduated from Athens University (Department of Mathematics). He received his PhD (Computes and Information Sciences) from the University of Minnesota. He is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science & Information & Engineering departments.

Panos Pardalos is a world-renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Energy Systems, Financial applications, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AAIA, AIMBE, EUROPT, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Panos Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals for “scientific contributions that stand the test of time.”

Panos Pardalos has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Award (2018-2019). The Humboldt Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date – fundamental discoveries, new theories, insights that have had significant impact on their discipline.

Panos Pardalos is also a Member of several Academies of Sciences, and he holds several honorary PhD degrees and affiliations. He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization, Computational Management Science, and Springer Nature Operations Research Forum. He has published over 600 journal papers, and edited/authored over 200 books. He is one of the most cited authors and has graduated 71 PhD students so far. Details can be found in www.ise.ufl.edu/pardalos

Panos Pardalos has lectured and given invited keynote addresses worldwide in countries including Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the USA.

Invited Talk: Dependence Models for Multi-Hazard-Events

While single hazard models are very common in catastrophic event modeling and risk management, a more comprehensive approach consists in considering several event types and their interrelations. In fact, we study triggering effects (e.g. a drought event triggers a wildfire event), amplifying events (a drought event amplifies the damage of a subsequent flood event) and compounding events (two events of different type multiply the possible damage). While we use copula models for events of the same type in different regions, we use models for dependent discrete event processes for events of different types. In particular, the effect of events of one type may change the intensity of the other process. We present analyses for various multiple hazard relationships. The work is an example for systemic risk and is based on an EU-project MYRIAD carried out at the International Institute for Applied Sytsem Analysis (IIASA).

Short bio

Georg Pflug obtained a Magister iuris and a Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of Vienna. He is Full Professor and the Head of the Computational Risk Management Group at the University of Vienna. He is also an Emeritus Research Scholar of the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group in the Advancing Systems Analysis Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Georg has been a visiting Professor at several universities across the world and the Editor-in-Chief of Statistics and Risk Modeling. He served as Associate Editor to many journals and has greatly supported the scientific community as a member in many international as well as national scientific bodies. Georg is the author of 5 books, editor of 8 books and more than 100 publications in refereed journals and has an Erdös Number of 3.